

"Their women, and sometimes young men, marked by colorless eyes and wandering gazes, create stone spirals in the barren fields. The following ritual was written down by the famous anthropologist of the previous century, Von Bokke, in the steppes to the north of ancient Circassia: These seeds grow, where no light of science or goodhearted reason shines. The uncanny seeds of the pre-indoeuropean, and probably antediluvian traditions are still spreading in places lost to culture, morals, and traditional human religions, be it Christianity, Islam, or the faith of the Hindu. To what being, if not Shub, the grotesque goddess of twisted fertility, can we connect the Kurland Dainas that mention the "Dark goat-mother of a thousand wooden boots"? If the cults we describe here are truly dead - how does one explain the hidden, maddening and disease spreading monuments to shapeless things of marine origin, that were found in the Mausoleum of Balthasar by the advancing Horde of Tamerlane? But this barrage of logic can be rendered asunder by lesser known facts.

Those of a sceptical mindset will quickly find flaws in the thoughts of the ancient scholar. The ability to provide contact between mere human beings, and those maddening metaphysical entities of the void, that shamble through eons in the cold wastes of the Cosmos. But did not lose their ungodly potency that was placed into them by their ancient, inhuman creators. Took new shapes, to better suit their new carriers. Instead of falling victim to the tides of time, these rituals spread to the lands of Kaspius, Pontus Axinicus and many others! They melted into the pots of languages, cultures and traditions.

Here is an idea that, Carter the Dreamer, who is known for his travels in the Great Tartaria, left with his students: the marriage of the Black Goat, "The road" of the stone Lambda, and the aforementioned mysteries of the Stargazers did not die out with the terrible, incestuous tribe of wanderers from the long forgotten choking jungles of the sunken plateau of Lang… With furtive whispers in some University libraries and in hidden gatherings of those who fancy the occult, some pass on alternative answers to our question.
